This Day In Gaming History: December 3rd, 2001 – Super Smash Bros. Melee launches on the Nintendo GameCube
Just a couple weeks after Nintendo released their GameCube system to kick off the fifth generation of video gaming, Nintendo had their killer app in the form of the sequel to 1999’s Super Smash Bros. – simply labeled “Melee“. The game was released in North America on December 3rd, 2001. To say the original fighting…